Graphites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 820 anagrams from letters in graphites (aeghiprst).
1790-1800; German Graphit Greek gráph(ein) to write, draw + German -it -ite1
Lucky there is plenty of graphite to be had, or wed be stuck.
The use of graphite did not become general until about 1850.
The reactor itself, a massive gridlike metal and graphite structure, 36 feet high.
In the oldest of the rocks there are beds of graphite, from which lead pencils are made.
But we had the graphite [reactor core] exposed to the air for four days—land for 30 kilometers around was contaminated.
In some instances, as in the case of graphite, the mixture may be merely mechanical.
It is crystallized, but this can be said of graphite as well.
(d) Rub the back of the tracing with graphite (the lead of the pencil).
Close to the filament is a graphite disk which serves as one of the electrodes.
The graphite is recovered by mechanical processes of sorting.
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